“(The) time he emerged was late ’60s, early ’70s, out of what we traditionally thought of architecture — you know, big giant boxes, cubicles, fairly cold, austere kind of buildings, and he stepped out of that box and really preached a new kind of architecture.”

Professor Knowles says a major Venturi-designed structure in Philadelphia is the Guild House on Spring Garden Street, near 7th (top phot0).